The Foundations (An Extravagant Play)

Name: The Foundations (An Extravagant Play)
Author: John Galsworthy

by John Galsworthy

Pages: about 68
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Reading time: 75 min at 250 wpm

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The Action passes continuously between 8 and 10.30 of a summer evening, some years after the Great War.
LORD WILLIAM DROMONDY'S mansion in Park Lane. Eight o'clock of the evening. LITTLE ANNE DROMONDY and the large footman, JAMES, gaunt and grin, discovered in the wine cellar, by light of gas. JAMES, in plush breeches, is selecting wine.
L. ANNE. Oh! [A pause] And is Charles's an improper name too?
JAMES. Miss Anne, stand clear o' that bin. You'll put your foot through one o' those 'ock bottles.
JAMES. Poulder. Butlers think they're the Almighty. [Gloomily] But his name's Bartholomew.
L. ANNE. Do you like my name? Anne Dromondy? It's old, you know. But it's funny, isn't it?
L. ANNE. Are they all for the dinner, or for the people who come in to the Anti-Sweating Meeting afterwards?
[JAMES pauses in the act of dusting a bottle to look at her, as if suspecting irony.]
[Sniffing] Isn't the smell delicious here-like the taste of cherries when they've gone bad--[She sniffs again] and mushrooms; and boot blacking.

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The Foundations (An Extravagant Play)

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